What did you do before the cell phone?

We have reached a milestone of this century whereby we are fast paced lives makes its easier and faster through the aid of the modern gadgets like that of a cellphone. Life without it is of course a little bit slower but I can still live with that. Let me support that in answering your questions; How did we get dates or tell a boy we liked him? We can still tell them in person, remember the high school or college days ? How did we tell our friends to meet us at the mall ? When we meet in a certain place, we have to agree together that we have to meet on the mall at a certain time otherwise, if one would visit a friend she/he can visit the others and relay the message. How did we get mom and dad to come pick us up after a movie or sporting event with our friends? You didn't mention of the landline phones can I use it ? Lol.

I can remember life before cell phones because I refuse to use one! I have never written a text message, taken a cellphone picture, or called someone at the mall. Hopefully they will soon outlaw cellphone use in vehicles and that will be one less excuse to kill people on the highway. Won't that be nice. There is nothing in life that is so important that it cannot wait until you get home to make that call. You can no longer have a peaceful meal in a restuarant without some jerk having a loud nasty conversation halfway across the room. Meetings are interupted because someone forgot to put their phone on vibrate. Religious services are interupted everything gets interupted. People talk on the phone as if they were in the privacy of their own home. I don't want to know the stuff I hear out in public nowadays. Some of it is disgusting. Shalom~Adoniah

Yep I remember kife before cell phones it was called the payphone in the mall or the pager that I had and everyone else that I knew had. I hate to say this but we have always had some way of keeping in touch even if it was through a chain of people LOL!!!

It is very hard to imagine life without a cell phone whether it is among the young or the old. The way we depended on telephone booths to pass an imediate message is now unimaginable. It was os difficult to convey an urgent news on the spot.Even children who want their parents to pick them after the class had to make their parents wait for them if their classes did not get over in time.Of course there are some who misuse the cell phone.But that is passable because the advantages of the cell surpasses the disadvantages.

I had a pager but as far as me making calls I had to rely on pay phones when I was away from home and needed to reach someone.

Hahaha, i like this Topics.... I remember how do we live before cell phone. Usually when i woke up in the morning, i will tell my mom to pick me up at my course place. i take computer course after school. i go to school with a schoolbus. so i don't have to ask my mom to pick me up after school. At that time, if i like a girl, i will write a letter for her and give her at school, just to ask her out. To communicate with my friend usually i use phone at my home. After make an appointment with my friend, i will ask my dad to drive me to the location and to pick me up at 9 o'clock. Phew, i don't think now we do that again. Right!!Hahaha.....

Before the cellphone or mobilephone, I used the fixed phone. I can remember well when there was no phone, I had to plan and help myself by saying mouth to mouth first. I often used the snail mail when I was a student.

before the cellphone we were only using letters in sending letters to our love ones who are far from us. We use landline to call our families abroad.

Yes I do remember life before cellphones. I use to use a pager and people would often buzz me if they needed me to call them. I used my page from the mid 90's to 2001 then soon after that I purchased my first cell phone.Before pagers I guess we just depended on voice mail and answering machines with a regular land line phone and when kids went out they were expected to call their parents at a payphone or at their friends house. Parents always needed the phone number where their kids were at back in the days before cellphones. I remember calling my mom on pay phones and at friends houses a lot when I was a teen. Oh, back then we use to tell boys we liked them threw passing notes and threw mutual friends at school. No cell phones were needed for that!..hehe

Yeah it's called a pay phone when you weren't at home! *LOL* Those are quite hard to find now days. Otherwise you had to wait til you got home to share any news you had with whomever. Now it's all in the "now"... wich has it's perks but it seems like we are glued to them and never take the time for any face to face interaction.

We planned :D and we did it very well. When we wanted to meet up, we had to be there at the designated time or someone would be left behind if he/she didn't come on time even though it wasn't his/her fault that he was running late. With boys, we had to do it the old fashioned way - staying for hours on the telephone. I'm so glad there's texting!! I never liked staying on the phone for too long, it hurts my ears :P Thanks for the response on my discussion!

Definitely. I led a relatively peaceful life.

I know what you mean. In a mater of four years I have gone from hardly knowing what texting is to not knowing what to do without it-it's just instinct to say, "I'll just text them" What I want to know is what did we do when people didn't show up-like if we needed to find someone and they weren't near a phone. Very unsafe if you ask me.

What would i do without a cell phone. wow i would honestly be lost. i use my phone so many times a day. especailly with out txting that would tottally be the lost of my life lol. it must of been hard back with out one. but then again they never had one to see what it is like with one. i also remeber the first cell phones that came in like a brief case and where like a foot long.. wow technology has came pretty far in the last 20 or 30 years.

When I didn`t have a cell phone, it wasn`t a big deal. I carried quarters with me and I could talk as long as I wanted lol. The fee for using the phonebooth has increased here but it wouldn`t cost that much compared to a cell phone bill. But I don`t get the deal of how we confess over a text message. That`s new to me. I prefer someone to talk to me as a man and not as a wuss hahaha But my mom still insisted me to get a cell. After hearing stuff in the news it made her worry. Now that I go to university, I could finish really late sometime and the cellphone could become handy on the bus just to them that I am still alive.

Before cell phones... yeah, before cell phones there were beepers. LOL Still had to use a land phone to send someone a beeper message but yes, beepers were quite the thing for a few years. It is a form of one-way communication but it did serve its purpose well until the SMS with mobile phones came out. I remember my beeper, it was purple and I bought a little protector casing for it... ah, those were the days. LOL Wait, don't on-duty doctors still use them? Hmmm.

I think life was a little quieter then. Now don't get me wrong, I love my cell phone. It is great because it has made it easier to keep in touch with the people that mean the most to us. But, there's a part of me that misses, every once in a while, not being able to be reached whenever the mood strikes someone. For example, work calling when your on vacation. Before cell phones, there were pay phones. There still are, but you really have to look for them nowadays. You could get phone cards that you plugged in the nubers off the card and could call out on a payphone without change. Before phone cards, you had to have the change on you, or you could call collect. Suddenly, I am feeling very old.

I could still remember how love letters were sincerely expressed with the use of pen and colorful papers. We still had time to go to our neighbor's house for a chat and we have time for family bonding. I even remember that I have to make sure that I should call my mom using the landline phone if I can't go home on time. Our lives were not so complicated before than what we have today.

b4 da usage of phones i used to tel my frens dat v all meet at sum place or sum 1s home at dat tym nd v used to follow it ..

i have a mobile phone since last 10 years . before having a mobile phone i don't usually go out with my friends. some times i think what will happen if the cell phones banned again...!